Rent Kamikaze Hearts (1986)
3.4 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 17min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Alternately instructive, distressing, contestable and fascinating, Juliet Bashore's quasidocumentary plunge into the porn industry of the 1980s takes an unsparing look at misogyny, drug abuse and exploitation via the story of two women - naive newcomer Tigr and her partner, the magnetic, imperious porn veteran Sharon Mitchell - caught in a toxic romance. By turns mesmerising and unsettling, 'Kamikaze Hearts' is both a fascinating record of pre-gentrification San Francisco's X-rated underground and an intense, searing love story that offers a disturbing glimpse of the commodification of bodies, feelings and lives.
- Actors:
- Tigr, Sharon Mitchell, Jon Martin, Sparky Vasc, Jerry Abrams, Robert McKenna, Jorge, Mantra, Jennifer Blowdryer, George Paul Csicsery, David Clark, Eric Rekard, Phil Hopper, Geoff Alderman, Marian Wilde, Pheeno Barbidoll, Phaery Burd, Siri Aarons, Charlie Pickel, Hans Fuss
- Directors:
- Juliet Bashore
- Producers:
- Sharon Hennessey, Heinz Legler, Bob Rivkin
- Writers:
- Juliet Bashore, John Knoop, Tigr
- Genres:
- Drama, Lesbian & Gay
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 27/03/2023
- Run Time:
- 77 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary by director Juliet Bashore, actors Sharon Mitchell, Jon Martin and Howie Gordon (aka Richard Pacheco), and performance artist Shelly Mars
- Crash (excerpt, 1994, 12 mins): Juliet Bashore workshopped a 'fictional' version of 'Kamikaze Hearts' through the American Film Institute. This sketch is one of the outcomes of the AFI project
- Interviews (2022, 173 mins): a selection of newly recorded interviews totalling almost three hours, with Juliet Bashore, Sharon Mitchell, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, plus Susie Bright, Howie Gordon and Jon Martin
- Vintage trailer
- 2022 trailer
